On the eve of the outbreak of the world conflict, the Ottoman Empire was most similar in some respects to the current European Union, a decadent entity, but after 683 years of domination, with many internal conflicts, with an unreliable army, weighed down by a self-referential bureaucracy and unable to perform its function. And "there was a nation that promised another nation the land of a third nation", thus began the tragedy of Israel and in some ways even the Shoah.The promises m...